Question: can i place honey on my infant yeast infection?
My baby is two months old now and had a yeast infection on her bum nearly since she was born. I heard of adults using honey for yeast and was wondering if its innocuous to place it on my babys bum. Let me know thanks

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Answer by BoringKeep honey away from infants period. It contains bacteria that their tiny bodies can’t fight off well that young.

The reason babies aren’t supposed to have honey is that it can contain botulism. Infants are particularly susceptible to it. But I don’t have any idea if they could get it from honey on their skin. I do have a friend who used plain yogurt instead to cure a yeast infection. It worked very well.

Are you sure you heard honey and not yogurt? Plain yogurt is used sometimes to help clear them and yogurt helps to prevent them, but I have never heard of honey. The sugar in honey would feed the yeast…not kill it.

No. You should not put honey on your infant daughter’s yeast infection. Because she has had it for two months and has presumably been seen by a doctor, you should take her to a different doctor for a second opinion. It is possible that rather than a yeast infection, she has some kind of allergy or skin infection, or that her yeast infection requires a different type of medication to treat. You should never use food products in her diaper area – if it enters her vagina, she could develop a more serious infection. I have heard of other natural remedies, but they are untested and too harsh for an infants delicate skin. She is far too young to feed yogurt to, and besides, at this point, creating “good” bacteria isn’t as important as treating the bad bacteria that already exists.

You may already know this, but infants under 1 should never be given orally because honey may contain botulism spores that their body may not be able to fight off. These same spores could – in very rare circumstances – cause a skin botulism infection if applied to an open wound on a person of any age. For this reason combined with the fact that it would be very sticky and uncomfortable, I would not suggest anyone use honey to treat a yeast infection.